arrière-grand-père
\a.ʁjɛʁ.ɡʁɑ̃.pɛʁ\
The verdict
“arrière-grand-père” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Le père de l’un des grands-parents.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrière-grand-père |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁjɛʁ.ɡʁɑ̃.pɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “arrière-grand-père” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
arrière-grand-père is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʁjɛʁ.ɡʁɑ̃.pɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Le père de l’un des grands-parents.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for arrière-grand-père, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is arrière-grand-père, spelled A-R-R-I-È-R-E---G-R-A-N-D---P-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Le père de l’un des grands-parents.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “arrière-grand-père”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-R-R-I-È-R-E---G-R-A-N-D---P-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.